The forget-me-not stone, turquoise or Turkey stone, “ceruleous like unto a serene heaven,” if worn in a ring of gold will, it is said, preserve men from falls and from the bruises proceeding of them by receiving that harm into itself which otherwise would fall upon the man; yet these virtues are said not to be in the gem except it has been received as a gift. “The Turkeys,” says Fenton, in his Secrete Wonders of Nature,[188] “doth move when there is any peril prepared to him that weareth it.” Ben Jonson and Drayton refer to the same superstition. Rueus says, that he saw a _Turchoys_, which, upon the death of its master, lost all its beauty and contracted a cleft, which, a certain man afterwards buying at an under price, returned again to its former glory and beauty, as if, observes he, by a certain sense, it had perceived itself to have found a new master. The same author says of it that it doth change, grow pale and destitute of its native color if he that weareth it do, at any time, grow infirm or weak; and again, upon the recovery of its master, that it doth recover its own lovely beauty, which ariseth of the temperament of its own natural heat and becometh ceruleous like unto a serene heaven. According to the ancients, the wearing of the turquoise had a most excellent quality: it destroyed animosity and, in particular, appeased discord between man and wife. It is possible that Shakspeare had in his mind the seeming influence of the turquoise (as well as its value): “_Tubal._ One of them showed me a ring, that he had of your daughter for a monkey. “_Shylock._ Out upon her! Thou torturest me, Tubal; it was my turquoise; I had it of Leah, when I was a bachelor: I would not have given it for a wilderness of monkeys.” The Arabs value the turquoise chiefly for its reputed talismanic qualities; and they seek for large pieces, without particular reference to purity of color. The stones intended for amulets are usually set in small rings of plated tin. The wearing of coral in a ring has been thought of power to “hinder the delusions of the devil, and to secure men from _Incubus_ and _Succubus_.”[189] All remember Shakspeare’s beautiful exposition of adversity: “Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.”[190]